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Why Female Founder Office Hours is So Important

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Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!” Of the 106 judges who preceded her 105 of them were men (Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman). 8% of VC partnerships, for example).

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. MOVIECLIPS : Launched December 2009 in Santa Monica, MOVIECLIPS is a premium online video destination offering audiences the largest and most diverse collection of movie scenes.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). It’s funny but recently I was at the CornerstoneOnDemand conference in Santa Monica. Not so fast. SOME INTERESTING DATA. That alone is pretty compelling.

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Jetpack Gives a Boost to Mobile and Rich Media Advertising

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But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space

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2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. For us, being near Santa Monica was key. Around the Santa Monica area, it happens to be a landlords market with less than 6% availability. Space is tight.

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